Transference and Its Object: The Agalma — Lillian Ferrari (first meeting)
Contrary to being an intersubjective phenomenon, Lacan connects transference in analysis with a particular object he isolates in his seminar on Transference as the agalma, a hidden, precious object of desire enclosed in the other, and the antecedent of his notion of object a.
We will read selected chapters of Seminar VIII, Transference (1960-61).
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On Repetition: Lacan’s Contribution to Logic — André Michels
There is repetition only through scansion by the unary trait, the basis of the constitutive differentiation of the subject. Returning to the logic of the signifier, we will address the structure of repetition and the emergence of the new — one of the major stakes for the future of psychoanalysis.
On Hate and Love — Paola Mieli
The process of identification brings to the fore an intrinsic vulnerability toward otherness, grounding the forms of hainamoration (love/hate) proper to the subject of language, and their subjective and collective manifestations — also typical of the political domain. Identification, narcissism, and the sexual non-relation will be addressed, exploring the vicissitudes of hate and love, and the path toward a relation to otherness that reckons with the real of difference, moving beyond the myth of the One toward a practice of the not-all.
The Logics of the Sexed Being — Gisèle Chaboudez
Since Freud, psychoanalysis has updated its thinking about sex. With Lacan, the pan-phallic logic of the Oedipal gave way to a female logic of the not-all, allowing women an “other jouissance.” The phallic function remains, but it’s no longer exclusive.
Après-Coup Presentations Event
This event will be free and open to the public.